I Can’t Breathe is the master story of urban America and a scathing indictment of corrupt motives built into our punishment system, I Can’t Breathe Into the Details of a case to confront us about the human cost of our misguided approach to administering criminal justice.

On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a sidewalk in Staten Island after a police officer subjected him to what was described as strangulation. legitimacy in an arrest for the sale of contraband cigarettes. His painful final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry for the fledgling Black Lives Matter protest movement. A grand jury ultimately refused to indict the officer who wrestled Garner to the sidewalk.

Matt Taibbi’s poignant retelling of these events frees Eric Garner from the abstraction of newspaper accounts and lets us see people in full – with all its flaws and contradictions. His is still intact. As a husband and father with a complicated personal history, Garner is neither the villain nor the victim, but an incredibly proud individual determined to do the best he can for his family, crushed by bad luck and eventually succumbed to forces beyond his control.

In America, of course, no wrongdoing exists in isolation, and in I Can’t Breathe, Taibbi also examines the conditions that made this tragedy possible. With vivid details of life on the streets and inside our Kafkaesque court system, Taibbi’s kaleidoscope account sheds light on issues surrounding policing, mass incarceration, the economy underground economy and racial disparities in law enforcement. No one has emerged unscathed, from the conservative district attorney who half-heartedly prosecuted the case to the progressive mayor caught between outraged activists’ demands and manipulation. of recalcitrant police officials.

• I Can’t Breathe

• A Killing on Bay Street
• By: Matt Taibbi

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